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The Cisco® 7600 Series Ethernet Services Plus High Density (ES Plus HD) line cards are designed for high port density for Ethernet services delivery. The line cards allow service prioritization for voice, video, data, and wireless mobility services and can connect to LAN, WAN, and Optical Transport Network Physical Layer (OTN PHY) interfaces. Service providers and enterprises benefit from the efficiency gains in power consumption, improved economics from higher density, as well as advanced features, which can be transported using G.709 and Forward Error Correction (FEC), allowing optical links to span greater distances.

The ES Plus HD cards use the ES Plus card family architecture that relies on programmable interface processors, protecting network investments and reducing total cost of ownership. The extensible design maximizes connectivity options and offers superior service intelligence through programmable interface processors operating at line rate. This data sheet contains the specifications for the Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD line cards, which are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD Line Cards

Product Overview

Designed for IP/MPLS provider edge networks, and WAN, metropolitan-area network (MAN) and optical transport network (OTN) applications, the Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD line cards support high 10-Gbps port densities with eight 10-Gbps ports per line card. The cards feature hierarchical quality of service (QoS), locally significant VLANs, and up to 16,000 VLAN IDs per line card for comprehensive services at scale. The cards provide the unique ability to combine both Layer 2 and Layer 3 services on the same line card. The combination of native Ethernet Layer 2 switching, bridging, Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS), and Layer 3 IP/MPLS routing distinguishes these line cards from other products on the market, particularly in Carrier Ethernet applications.

Additionally, the ES Plus HD line cards have integrated transport capabilities with WAN PHY and G.709 Generic FEC (using the 76-ES+OTN/G.709 license) support on the 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The ability to span even greater distances between Cisco 7600 Series Routers is supported with Enhanced Forward Error Correction (EFEC) in the Cisco 7600 Series (back-to-back connections). Operations, administration, and maintenance (OA&M) capabilities are supported in both OTN and WAN PHY interface controller modes, providing insight into link quality and data transmission health.

The ES Plus HD line cards also include synchronization circuitry, allowing them to provide standards-based functions for delivering and deriving transport-class network timing, providing support for network-synchronized services and applications such as mobile backhaul and time-division multiplexing (TDM) migration.

Recognizing that real-time media dominate next-generation services, Cisco has integrated video monitoring technology into the ES Plus HD line cards. This multimedia technology provides real-time monitoring and statistics collection for video flows, supporting proactive maintenance and management of today's media-rich services, without the use of additional service modules or external probes. To see a video demonstration of inline video monitoring from Cisco in action, visit www.cisco.com/web/solutions/routingswitching/vidmon.html.

The innovative architecture of these industry-leading, premium Ethernet services line cards is designed to deliver cost-effective, high-touch features, combining both application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and network processor technology for an optimal combination of performance and flexibility. The Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD line cards provide distributed forwarding with proven ASIC technology in the forwarding path (routing, switching, NetFlow, and access control lists [ACLs]), and queuing and shaping functions to optimize the performance of these foundational features. Additionally, four programmable network processors are included in the forwarding plane to facilitate flexibility and feature growth. This outstanding technology combination provides customers with the necessary flexibility for future service deployments and allows them to scale the system capacity as required.

Key Features and Benefits

Table 1 summarizes the major features and benefits of the line cards.

Table 1.Key Features and Benefits of the Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD Line Cards

The ES Plus HD line cards have two feature license options with the following part numbers: 76-ES+BASIC-LIC (Basic license, including IPv6) and 76-ES+ADVIP-LIC (Advanced IP license).

The Basic license entitles you to use the Cisco IOS Software Release 15S functions on the Cisco 7600 ES Plus HD line cards with the following exceptions:

●Multicast VPN (MVPN)

●Layer 3 IP/MPLS VPN/6VPE

●Cisco Intelligent Services Gateway (ISG)

●Optical Transport Network (OTN)

●Inline Video Monitoring (VidMon)

Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD Line Cards Advanced IP License

The Advanced IP license entitles you to use Cisco IOS Software Release 15S on the Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD line cards with the following functions in addition to the Basic license:

●6VPE

●Layer 3 IP/MPLS VPN

●MVPN

One Advanced IP license is needed for each of the ES Plus HD line cards in the system where these features areenabled.

The Advanced IP license does not entitle you to use features contained in the Optical Transport Network, Intelligent Services Gateway, or Video Services licenses on the Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD line cards.

The Optical Transport Network license (part number 76-ES+OTN-LIC) is available for purchase when the OTN capability (G.709/FEC/EFEC) is to be used, and is required on each line card where OTN will be enabled.

The Intelligent Services Gateway license (part number 76-ES+ISG-LIC) entitles use of the BNG features of Cisco IOS Software Release 15S on the Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus line cards.

The 76-ES+ISG-LIC is purchased per chassis in increments of 8000 subscribers requiring BNG features, with eight MPLS VPNs per license.

Cisco 7600 Series ES Plus HD Line Cards Video Monitoring License

The ES Plus Video Monitoring license (part number 76-ES+VIDEO-LIC) is available for purchase when the Video Monitoring capability is to be used, and is required on each chassis where Video Monitoring will be performed.

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